Rand Fishkin leaves Moz, announces a new start-up

Rand Fishkin, the co-founder of Moz, announced his new company after officially leaving his day-to-day operations at Moz yesterday. He is starting a company named SparkToro, a technology platform in the influencer and audience intelligence marketing space. Fishkin started the well-known SEO platform over a decade ago with his mother, Gillian. In fact, he dropped out of college to make the company now known as Moz about 17 years ago. Last July we learned he was leaving Moz after stepping down as CEO back in 2014 . Fishkin described his departure from Moz as a four out of 10 on a scale of zero to 10 where zero is “fired and escorted out of the building by security” and where 10 is “left entirely of his own accord on wonderful terms.” He wrote: That makes today a hard one, cognitively and emotionally. I have a lot of sadness, a heap of regrets, and a smattering of resentment ...